Chapter 8

April continued to the following chapter and as she read on, not only intrigued and interested to know what happened next but was flabbergasted to the story line of where she and Casey goes through a bitter breakup due to Casey was astounded and furious with rage of what has happened to his partner. To him, she wasn't the April he had fallen for and deeply attracted to. This April may speak, behave and thought like the April he knew but she didn't look like the woman he desires.

To his mind, he is robbed and torn away from the woman he deeply empathically and infatuated with all his heart, body and spirit. How can he remotely gaze upon her again? The emotions are there, just the physical attraction is gone. Along with the physical form that he forever had worshipped is gone as well. She didn't know how to react to the par where she read, Donatello had built the machine long before she and Casey had gotten together and become engaged. Deeply saddened by that he had carried a broken heart all this time.

But had felt a forgiveness and gratitude arose when she realised that he decided to huddle it away like cluttered tools that he had stashed away in the back of the lab. Softly whispery stated, wiping the warm tears from her cheeks. "Oh Donnie, I am so very sorry." Guilt begun to eat away at her, as she never saw any of them like that except little brothers. Nothing more, nothing less.

~few minutes later~

As April read on and again, hot broken tears fell wetting her cheeks. Covering her lips, her eyes widen in disbelief as they became glassy and hot. Her palm became hot and sweaty as she held the mouse whilst guiding the arrow to scroll down the page.

The next morning, Don went to work without eating breakfast. April tried to follow, but Mikey begged her to eat his cooking again. He loved praise on his skills of being the chef of the bale, so she stayed in the kitchen.

Hopes that Casey would accept her again were destroyed when Casey came to the Lair that morning. He didn't call or anything, just came on in at the worst possible moment.

Mikey was rubbing his hands over April's arms and giving her another kiss when Casey arrived.

When Casey witnessed Mikey doing this 'touchy-feelie' act with his fiance and blew up all over again. He proceeded to beat Mikey against the fridge and Leo had to tear them apart. Not wanting to get strangled more, Mikey took off topside.

He wasn't bothered by Casey's hostility as he was stuck on a one track minded idea, a 'mission' even. If Mikey couldn't move on to April, he would just find some girl he could move on to. With that invention of Don's, he could create all sorts of fun green playmates now.

He would start by looking for girls, hunting by day for the best candidates and convincing them to follow him home by night. Snickering as he went, Mikey just couldn't wait to find those willing girls!

Leo tried to calm Casey down, but he screamed and hollered, saying that he couldn't possibly put up having April like this. He expected her to be back to normal by morning, but that wasn't the case and couldn't be since such things took time and weren't easy to do.

Casey couldn't accept that it may be weeks or even months before April was human again and his crazed panicked emotions made him say terrible things that he didn't really mean.

So, Casey told April that they were through and he wanted a divorce. He simply could not live on engaged to a freak of nature. He felt as if this new green April wasn't April at all and his real April was 'dead'.

April was incredulously flabbergasted to what she had read and couldn't stop the tears as it were her very had been torn out from her. Grabbing the box of tissues, wiping the tears and blew her nose then looked back for a second, hoping she didn't wake up Casey in the next room which he continued to snore but spoke softly in his sleep.

Exhaled a soft sigh of relief, threw the tissue in the waste basket beside her and resumed reading. Telling herself it is just a story, only fiction not real and if were real, how would she comprehend the situation? Could she truly accept the relationship between herself and Donatello? Wiping the tears away, and continued on. Then April had discovered it wasn't just Donatello that felt infatuation with her, it was also Raphael. Her eyes widen quickly as she was dumbfounded and embarrassed.

"Raph, where are you? Are you at Mona Lisa's apartment?" Leo asked and was bombarded with a string of curse words.

"What the fuck are you calling me for, Leo? Yes, I'm at Mona's! Why in the hell do you want to know?" Raph asked as he motioned for Mona to stop stroking his exposed manhood. Can't a Turtle have one minute of privacy?

It was impossible to do anything fun with Mona at the Lair, so Raph had to go over to her home to get the relief he needed practically daily. Having April around as a Turtle raised Ralph's libido dangerously high so he had to stay away. He didn't want his old feelings for her to return and hurt Mona in the end. He had hurt Mona once before, and he didn't want it to happen again.

It was a known fact that male turtles required at least two lovers to please them, and this natural animal instinct had once compelled Raphael to two-time Mona Lisa with Ninjara - a ninja fox lady he befriended! It deeply hurt both girls when they found out. Raph was lucky that Mona forgave him, but Ninjara didn't. Raph feared with April around, someone he once had feelings for, that vicious cycle would start all over again. He had to keep away as much as he could.

"Well, ask her if she can come and console April. She's having a mental breakdown I think. Alright, Raph? For April's sake?" Leo looked over to April who was still crying like mad at the kitchen table.

Raph scrunched his face up, feeling torn. He really needed some relief from Mona, but he still cared for April. He gave in and handed the phone to Mona. She agreed to help April right away and ushered Raph to his truck so they could get back to the city.

Leo closed his cell phone and did his best to be by April's side until Mona arrived. Don heard the altercation upstairs loud and clear. He felt terrible for April, her sobs were heartbreaking. But then again, he also felt a tiny glimmer of hope as well. Maybe he did have a chance after all...

"Holy tolu lee." April whispery exclaimed, scrolling down to read on and wanted to know more of the fiction as she became more anxious and wrote down her following review for the chapter. Breathed softly as she wrote down what she is going to say in her review to the author, looked back once more and exhaled with relief that her partner is still sleeping then wondered to herself as how could he sleep so soundly despite he sounded like a chainsaw? Chuckling quietly to herself then wondered again, as how would he sleep soundly if there was a baby involved? She longed for children, and with all the constant battling against Karai and the foot along with the purple dragons even the mobsters of new York and hadn't forgotten about bishop in the mix as she wonders, how would she and her partner raise a child in the world they are in?

But then, they have incredible turtles that they call family to help them in training to become stronger in body and mind and spirit. Sighed softly as she told herself, that she shouldn't be so worried about what may not happen as if a baby was born, the child will have the most protective and loving family that any child would be so very lucky to have. April couldn't pull herself away from the computer screen as she continued to read the fiction.

Her heart felt as it was breaking in two, as she read on. And discovered that she and casey had a foster daughter together but she requested the child to call april by her name not call her mom. This made april, slightly confused in some way but then it quickly clicked when she gave it some thought and agreed with the current situation or supposed alternate universe if it did occur that is exactly what she would expect a child that isn't biologically hers to call her by her name and not call her mother as to the red hair woman, she felt it would not be right unless if they had sat down and discussed the matter properly and come to proper agreement whether if she would accept the honor of foster parent no matter if with the man she loved had already adopted the child to begin with. Although she was torn in two when he told her that she was suffering a bad cold and wont be returning home for some time.

He took another swig of vodka direct from the bottle and slammed it down hard on the end table next to the couch. Shadow walked in, looking around for April. She had a worried expression on her face when she couldn't find her adopted mother any where.

"Dad, where's Mom?" Shadow asked, confused. Although April wanted Shadow to call her by her name, Shadow was in the habit of calling her 'Mom' regardless. April felt as if she wasn't good enough to be Shadow's mother, but the spunky nine-going-on-ten year old thought April was more than worthy.

"She..." Casey squeezed his eyes shut in pained sadness. "She ain't comin' home..."

"Why not? Did something happen?" Shadow asked, alarmed. She sat next to Casey. He sighed painfully, blinking back tears before he answered.

"Yes..." he said the best he could without losing control of his emotions. April was a green mutated freak of nature because of that evil nerdy geek Donatello.

Casey believed now that Don had this planned all along to steal April away. He knew very well how much Don liked April. He wished he wasn't so laid-back about it before. Maybe April would still be human...

"Oh no!" Shadow cried, feeling terrible. "What happened? Is she hurt? Is she in the hospital?"

"Shadow, listen to me. You go on upstairs and get to bed. April's not hurt, she just has a-..a..really weird 'allergy-cold-thing' going on, is all. She has to be away for a very long time so we don't catch it. Now don't ask about April no mores, alright? I don't like thinking about it." Casey said, furrowing his brow as he avoided her curious looks.

Casey's adopted daughter shook her head and did as she was told. So April had a bad cold or something? Shadow decided to find out where she was.

Maybe she was in a really special hospital and couldn't be seen until she was much better? That must be why Casey was so upset about it. They wouldn't let him in to see her.

Summer vacation would start in three months. Surely by then April would be less contagious and alright to visit. Then Shadow would bring April the best, most fanciest 'Get Well' card she could get and shiny metallic balloons with personal messages written on them to make her feel better. After that, April could come back home again.

Unable to pull away from the screen as she read about venus and leatherhead became a couple after Donatello tried his best in beginning a relationship with her but became angry and disappointed whence he was rejected by the female terrapin but not with intentional quest to hurt him, in the end his heart was crushed. Buried himself in work whence she left and went to live with leatherhead. Finally reached to the paragraph where Mona and raphael returned to the lair while venus made her way also and did what could be done to assure her with the current state and situation that had unfolded.

April had lost herself in the fiction as it got quite interesting. Sitting on the edge of her seat, wanting to know what was going to happen next. Then finally, hew wish had came true.

Wearing a pair of shorts and a blouse, the lizard lady stepped into the machine while April, Raph, and Don stood by. Even though he worked long and hard on the reversal program, Don hoped it wouldn't work. Yet, he was ashamed. April deserved to be human again. He mustn't be so selfish. He pulled the level and they all waited.

Mona's screams during the transformation was hard for them all to hear, but this was for the best. They had to see if the Mate-O-Matic could turn mutants into humans. April was so unbelievably happy to see Mona come out as a human.

But Mona's joy rivaled April's when Raph witnessed it for himself. Don hung back as he watched his older brother swing Mona's human form around in a circle. This meant April could be human again and go back to Casey and leave Don once more.

"Damn! I didn't know you were this beautiful as a human, Mona Lisa! Shell, look at the size of your ass!" Raph cried, hugging and kissing her.

Mona laughed with delight and punched Raph's naughty beak away from between her breasts. He sank his fingers deeply into her plush rump, making her kick at his groin. He let her go, grinning.

"Knock it off, Raph!" she said, smiling. "You dirty dog."

"Hey, I'm a Turtle remember? I ain't no damned dog!" Raph shot back, flirting.

"You're not a saint, Raphael. You-" Mona tried to say.

Couldn't keep her chuckles at bay but had to do what she could to keep the volume of her laughter to an minimum. Immediately understood how would raphael react and behave towards his current mate, mona lisa and noticed when it came to Donatello, she bit her lower lip then bit her fingernails with waiting anticipation to know what was going to happen next then finally she read exactly that.

Before their eyes, she quickly changed back to her mutant lizard form.

Dazed, she got up and held her head, looking at her hand. Seeing the familiar green webbed fingers, she realized what happened as did April with a sinking heart. Don's eyes brightened, but he did away with his pleased expression.

"It didn't work..." April said, feeling worse than she did when she first became this way. Was she doomed to be a freak forever?

"Uhh, oh man! What a trip! I guess it was too good to be true for long. But at least you guys saw what I used to look like before I was mutated, huh?" Mona asked, not too bothered by this failed experiment. It was the pain she tried to hide since she wanted to appear tough, especially in front of Raph.

She had so many failed attempts to be human before that she hardly cared anymore. Raph loved her no matter what she looked like and becoming human again wasn't as important as it used to be. In her mind and to Raph, she was beautiful and nothing like a freak.

"You sure had the sexiest ass I ever got to sink my fingers into..." the red clad Turtle said, licking his beak. "Without your tail in the way, I finally got in a real good squeeze."

All the sexual sentiment Raph was giving Mona was making Don's mind wander. He was imagining doing the same to April's rump. Tail or no tail, he always wanted to give her a good tight squeeze as well...

"Fingers, no. Claws, yes. Raph, you dirty pervert! You make me SO sick!" Mona rammed her palms to his plastron teasingly before grabbing his hand and dragging him away. After being grabbed and squeezed like that, Mona was in the mood. It definitely was time for more loving.

"Sorry, April. I'm sure you and Don will figure out a way to make it work. It seems to work, at least momentarily. Well, gotta go!" she said, waving.

She finally read the last of the chapter and then sent her review to the author before beginning chapter three aka the finale chapter.

April O'Neil#1 Dear Alaer kino, it is me again. You've done a incredible job on the second chapter and have to say I give a perfect 10. And cant wait to read chapter three also I've noticed your fiction that you titled 'Centaur of a trip.' I will read asap after the last chapter of this fiction as I wonder what your DoTT series are about and what adventure lies within. Anyway, keep up with the incredible work and hope to read more soon. See ya.

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~To be continued in chapter 9

Ok, what do you think? Good? Terrible? Update or discard? Reviews please as I would like to know what you think truthfully as you can see some paragraphs in each chapter have italics in them due they are the written work of authors that I like and favoured. And thought this idea of The turtles and the other TMNT characters read about our fictions that is written about them and their adventures with ups and downs, high and low. Etc, etc. anyway onward to the next chapter in the morning but for now should get my own beauty sleep. Night night. Tootles